Confusion liable to undermine end-user adoption of security fixes

[Michael Vastola]

Yea. Sorry.. I didn't realize I was being vague. The PPA (which I hope
you don't decide to take away... it's not in the spirit of computing to
not accommodate my laziness :-p) was totally up to date.

The issue was that the prominent notice on the home page suggesting
adding the PPA to apt /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ to obtain this fix was at
risk of being completely negated by the fact the home page seemed to
indicate that the PPA did not have a fixed version of pidgin.

Mike

On 08/19/2014 05:06 PM, Mark Doliner wrote:
> Looks like our Ubuntu PPA DOES contain Pidgin 2.10.9
> (https://launchpad.net/~pidgin-developers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa). I
> think the only problem here is that we didn't update the version
> number displayed on the pidgin.im website.
>
> There's a related issue where we're slow to build new releases for the
> PPA. Sometime in the future I'd like to talk about whether we should
> shut down the PPA completely, but I think that's a separate
> conversation.
>
> Mike: Thanks for reporting this to us! Please let us know if we've
> misinterpreted your email or if you still think there's a problem.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark